History Is a Bag of Concrete: A Founders Conversation on AI, Power, and Building Optionality
What does 1940s Poland have to do with the AI rollout at your job, or with whether sitting on Bitcoin still makes sense twenty years from now? In this Founders Conversation, a founder member puts those questions to Michael directly, and every answer bends in one direction: history is only useful if it changes what you do next.
The call moves from the postwar planning that set Poland and Eastern Europe on their current trajectory, through contested chapters of World War II, Antarctica expeditions, and flood-era architecture, into the two skills Michael says matter most for the decade ahead: making technology work for you, and making money work for you.
On crypto, the framing is structural. The HODL era is treated as finished, names like XRP, XLM, and Canton Network come up as settlement plumbing rather than lottery tickets, and even Bitcoin gets a hard shelf-life question.
This session was recorded on October 13, 2026. Complete Conversation Notes and the full session recording are below for Founders.
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